The Wild Reed

Earlier today I heard Jeff Sharlet being interviewd on MPR Radio. You may recall I spotlighted Sharlet recently at The Wild Reed by shar...

M uch of my life energies have gone toward what I call “living democracy” in which we each have both economic and political power. So, how...

For “music night” this evening at The Wild Reed I share Benjamin Booker ’s song “Believe,” from his 2017 album Witness , a collection of r...

I have to say that I’d be all for journalist, media critic, activist, and author Norman Solomon being President Joe Biden’s ghost writer! ...

“We are not on earth to guard a museum, but to cultivate a flowering garden of life.” – Pope John XXIII The Wild Reed ’s series of ref...

[ S peaker of the House] Kevin McCarthy using the debt ceiling to try to hold the government hostage is particularly galling. Rather tha...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2022) • Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2021) Image: Michael...

A nother place. Another killer. Another scene of mass death. Another example of the horror in which we live. Each mass shooting has its ow...

Barbara Anne Kozee is a queer Roman Catholic and a doctoral student in Theological Ethics at Boston College. Her research focuses on sexua...

Ed Simon , executive director of Belt Media Collaborative and the editor-in-chief for Belt Magazine , has written a fascinating piece for ...